PEER2PEER

Comprised of composer/performers Brad Robin and Seth Shafer, based in Chicago and San Diego respectively, Peer2Peer is an experimental networked performing ensemble that uses a cascading pipeline of processing, combining electronic and acoustic audio, live and prerecorded dance, and interactive video manipulation. We employ an improvisational approach within a defined metastructure that includes the themes, parameters, limitations, materials, and aesthetics that guide our exploration of performative opportunities. In "Gilded Embrace," visuals are create through video feedback.

EDME, Eugene New Music Festival, Eugene, OR October 4, 2024
Electronic Music Midwest 2024, Romeoville, IL March 2, 2024
University of Omaha, Nebraska March 20, 2023

INCISOR (2024)

Gasp! air sharp,

sharp - raw & alive mouth agape,

worlds peeled wide

Wire-grin-slick-faced glint & latch,

all clicks and snaps

hungry

Peer2Peer (Brad Robin, keyboards; Seth Shafer, synthesizers, audio, and video processing; Sarah Hamilton, dance) In "Liquid Encryption" (2022), we included live and prerecorded dance, and interactive video manipulation, which was networked from Seth in Omaha, Sarah in Fort Worth, and Brad live on the stage of the Sheen Center in NYC.

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https://nycemf.org/2024-preliminary-concert-schedule/
Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, NYC

Peer2Peer - 5000 Fingers (live at NYCEMF 2024)

https://nycemf.org/
https://nycemf.org/2024-preliminary-concert-schedule/
Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, NYC

Mother Star (2022)

For live telematic audio/video dancer. The convection action on the surface of the sun resonates with over one million harmonic nodes. By isolating those individual harmonics we can learn about the chaotic interior and predict long-term solar weather, all of which have implications for life on Earth. In this piece, we use sounds from the Sonification of Solar Harmonics project in combination with live dance and video processing to create a piece exploring the delicate relationship between Earth and our mother star.

Impulse (2021)

Impulse combines audio and video shared between performers, including live and prerecorded dance, such that in any given performance, it may not be clear what is real or live. We use multiple softwares designed for the control, processing, and integration of audio, visual, live, and data sources into a final projection.

DePaul Faculty Artist Concert, 4.1.2022

TeleFAUXcus

“TeleFAUXcus” (2021) considers the hyperreality of our lives; through social media we only show the top 1% of what we do, who we are, and hide the rest. We can mitigate our presentation for people to see us as we want to be seen, which confronts the issue of who are we? Are we what we seem? What lies beneath? “TeleFAUXcus” seeks to explore, confront, and experience these internal realities and social dynamics through art.